Remember that bit about needing soldiers? Well, you're going to need them, and you're going to need them more often than ever before. It was either that or wait approximately two days for everything to finish. While building up my city in the game's middle stages, I spent every last coin within 15 minutes. To give you an idea of how quickly the game encourages you to cough up dough, I had about $10 of gold provided by Microsoft to help me review the game. Require an army sometime before the soldiers are ready for veterans’ benefits? Pay up. Need some food and wood to meet the game's exorbitant resource requirements for structural upgrades? That'll cost you some gold. Want to finish building that cathedral before Islamic warriors sweep across the Middle East? Fork over some cash.
Gold is the game's all-purpose "speed-up" currency, and gold microtransactions are attached to literally everything in the game.
While you can earn a paltry amount by making war with other players or constructing roads, the best way to get gold is to fork over your real-world valuables to Microsoft. In addition to food, wood and (later on) stone, there's one more resource to collect: gold. Still, there are good and bad ways to ask players for money, and Castle Siege has some of the most manipulative schemes I've ever encountered. You need to pay to get ahead more quickly.Ĭomplaining about microtransactions in a free-to-play game is always tricky, since making games is costly and the developers have to recoup their expenses somehow. If you're wondering why the game places such draconian restrictions on the fun bits, the answer is simple: to make money. Constructing a whole new building can take up to a day - and of course, you can only construct or upgrade four buildings at a time. Upgrading a building might take half an hour.
As you get past the tutorial phase ofCastle Siege, training units takes three to five minutes. That means that everything you do takes time - and not the few seconds to a minute that buildings and units usually required in previous installments. So far, so good, but remember, this is not a traditional real-time strategy game: This is a free-to-play title. Earn enough resources, and you can bring your civilization into the next Age, which gives you access to new buildings, new technology and new types of soldiers. When you get enough resources, you can build military structures and recruit an army to wage war on enemy towns. You start with a limited number of resources (food and wood) and construct mills and farms in order to gather more. To be fair, the game looks a lot like a traditional Age of Empires experience, at first blush.
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